“The release of our Cohesion Platform is an extremely exciting evolution for collaboration technology,” said Mark Turpin, principal consultant at Covene. “Sustaining Pexip’s commitment to provide a simple and efficient method for making video available to everyone, this innovation maintains the ability to significantly lower cost of ownership in comparison to traditional solutions. Developed in response to customer demand, the addition of Outlook integration further simplifies the way users seamlessly book, meet, and manage their Pexip Infinity meetings.”

Communicating with Pexip Infinity through an extensive API, the solution’s Active Directory native plug-in for Outlook 2010 and 2013 allows organizations to provide employees with a branded button within the Outlook ribbon. By simply clicking “schedule meeting,” preconfigured meeting information is embedded within the meeting invite — eliminating the need to copy and paste both meeting details and instructions. All meeting invitation information is also fully customizable to meet organizational standards and deployment models, including local audio dial-in information, PIN codes if required, virtual and physical meeting rooms, and more.

As an added feature, the solution allows users to include direct soft client links for WebRTC, Microsoft Lync®, and other vendor platforms, while administrators retain the ability to determine the information included in meeting invites at the systemwide level through an intuitive Web-based interface. Administrators can also populate employee-specific invite information if different meeting specifics are required. After meetings are scheduled and invites are sent, the Covene Cohesion Platform tracks the start and end times of meetings while dynamically creating virtual meeting rooms with correct configurations without any administrative interventions.

Click to View – Outlook Meeting Body Invite

Offering both timesaving and convenience-based features, the Covene Cohesion Platform uniquely enables a delegate to schedule or reschedule meetings on behalf of principal organizers. To further optimize scheduling, a Web Scheduler browser-based tool (example screen below) lets users quickly book a Pexip meeting or conference call without the need to open Microsoft Outlook. The Covene Cohesion Platform also features a Conference Control Module, allowing users to actively monitor participants that join or leave meetings in addition to providing secure information-sharing capabilities. Application settings include a wide range of healthcare environments.

Click to View – Web Scheduler

“By releasing Cohesion, Covene is adding even more convenience and flexibility to our Pexip Infinity platform,” said Simen Teigre, Pexip CEO. “Developed by popular demand, Covene’s Outlook module lets users schedule meetings at the click of a button, facilitating virtual collaboration with an incredibly simple tool that is both easy to set up and administer for users familiar with today’s Outlook environment.”

Pexip Infinity enhances and simplifies the user experience for face-to-face communications in conferences that include Microsoft Lync, legacy video, and WebRTC-connected users — radically reinventing the way organizations can meet on any device — without enormous video infrastructure investments. Covene is a leading UCC provider whose dedication to innovation directly aligns with Pexip’s scalable, virtualized, software-driven approach.

About Pexip®Pexip® overthrows conventional thinking by providing an affordable, scalable, and virtualized meeting platform that truly enables everyone to do high-quality video meetings from any device. For Pexip, simplicity for the end user and IT is a guiding principle in the design of Pexip Infinity, the scalable meeting platform. Founded in 2012, Pexip was created by leading innovators from the videoconferencing industry. Pexip is headquartered in Oslo, Norway, and has offices in New York and London. For more information, visit www.pexip.com.